If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that you could have a European Union of 28 member ….

I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold..

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy..

Europe's biggest problem is its success..

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed wit….

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by….

Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immig….

Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life….

Starting from the ruins of the Second World War, we - all Europeans said, after centuries of fighting each other, we're going to build permanent arra….

Russia has lost an empire but not yet found a role. Russia has to decide what it wants to be. And as we know in Britain, that takes some time. It is ….

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unju….

America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world's view of Ameri….

I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I ….

What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under threat even in old-es….

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities..

The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who keeps his mistress in sat….

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity..

There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of ….

Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time..

In a democracy it is ultimately for us, the citizens, to judge where to place the balance between security and privacy, safety and liberty. It's our ….

Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on t….